TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitmire,Richard
TI  - Why boys fail: saving our sons from an educational system that's leaving them behind 
SN  - 9780814420171
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - AMACOM
KW  - Boys
KW  - Education
KW  - Motivation in education
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Discovering the problem -- The reason for the boy troubles : faltering literacy skills -- The likely causes of the reading lapses -- The writing failures -- The blame game: what gets blamed (unfairly) for the gender gaps -- Solutions: what works for boys? -- Impediments to a solution: the ideological stalemate -- The international story: Australians struggle with the boy troubles -- Why these gender gaps matter -- Actions that need to be taken
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